soil mechanics

PhD scholarship application in Geomechanics at University of Lyon & China Scholarship Council - Study of the hydromechanical behaviour of soils using a meshless approach to model large soil movements close to geo-structures

Submitted by benoit.pardoen on Thu, 01/16/2025 - 13:56

Full description & contact: see attached document
University & laboratory: University of Lyon, Laboratoire de Tribologie et Dynamique des Systèmes (LTDS), Ecole Nationale des Travaux Publics de l'Etat (ENTPE), Géomatériaux et Constructions Durables (GCD).
Location: Lyon, France
Period: 4-year China Scholarship Council scholarship application (only chinese student application)

Faculty Positions Civil Engineering at UACh - Valdivia, Chile (open until 28.02.2023)

Submitted by Uwe.Muehlich on Mon, 11/14/2022 - 19:36

job

Faculty Position in Civil Engineering

The Institute of Civil Engineering Construction of the Faculty of Engineering Science at Universidad
Austral de Chile (UACh, Chile) invites applications for two faculty positions. The areas of specific interest
are:

Soil Mechanics, Geotechnics and Foundation Engineering (E-138 2022)
Reinforced Concrete Design or Design of Steel / Timber Structures (E-1372022)

Applicants must have a PhD (doctorate degree). Post open until February 28, 2023.

See attached job post.

Underwater Soil Mechanics Problem

Submitted by dphull on Sat, 08/06/2016 - 02:31

education

discrete element method

soil mechanics

underwater

engineering

undergraduate education

I am an undergraduate student conducting a research project involving the design of a tool to aid astronauts to perform experiments on lunar surfaces and would like to request some direction about which analytical tools would be best suited for this application (i.e. FEA or DEM software/techniques). The specific scenario of interest is to design a tool that can act as an anchor in a sand-like medium (regolith) on the surface of the moon.

Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pittsburgh

Submitted by Andrew_Bunger on Fri, 02/27/2015 - 20:10

job

soil mechanics

Petroleum Engineering

Geotechnical engineering

hydraulic fracturing

Applications are invited for a 2 year Postdoctoral Fellow in Dr. Andrew Bunger's group at the University of Pittsburgh Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. The group conducts research in geomechanics with an emphasis on mechanics of hydraulic fractures and poromechanics of rocks.

Postdoc position at Ecole Centrale de Nantes in France

Submitted by yann on Tue, 01/28/2014 - 16:33

job

finite element analysis

constitutive modeling

soil mechanics

Geotechnics

risk analysis

A Postdoc position on “Risk-based Selection of Constitutive Models for Geotechnical Analysis” is open at Ecole Centrale de Nantes in France. Fore more details, see the attached pdf file.

Soil Structure Interaction

Submitted by zaphai on Thu, 12/19/2013 - 12:42

opinion

elastoplastic properties

soil-structure interaction

I am trying to model the soil churning action of a rotary tiller trough soil structure interaction. Based on some published articles, DEM and SPH approach both have been used to model the tool interaction with the soil. I am little confused in the selection of the appraoch. Can somebody throw some light on advantages and disadvantages of one approach over another and which approach should be chosen for more realistic results.

The "Goldilocks" Effect in Fossilized Dinosaur Trackways

Submitted by Lee Margetts on Mon, 01/17/2011 - 17:48

research

finite element analysis

The following paper is now online:

Falkingham P.L., Bates K.T., Margetts L. and Manning P.L. (2011) "The
'Goldilocks' effect: Presevational bias in vertebrate track
assemblages", Journal of the Royal Society Interface

See: http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2011/01/12/rsif.20…

Authors welcome any comments for future studies!